Box Elder News Journal | 1916-01-27 | Page 3 | Much Gold Overlooked

much gold overlooked the sequence 0 of events so often observed in the history of gold mining camps has been repeated in the willow creek district alaska the earliest prospectors in 1897 were primarily interested in the search tor for placer gold and having found it were too busily engaged in mining to trace the stream gold to the veins from which it originally came it was nearly ten tell years later that the first of the valuable quartz veins that now yield most of the gold mined in tho the district was discovered since 1906 however quartz mining has progressed steadily and has rested upon a substantial basis